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TIL South Park aired an episode titled “Band in China”… which resulted in them being banned in China.

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wLBa6 TIL eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruss, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have that origin.
oNbY TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (video included)
LQ5Wp TIL of a woman who birthed 69 children. She had 27 pregnancies, resulting in about 20 years of pregnancy.
mxeeR TIL one species of freshwater turtle has actual flippers like a sea turtle. Called the pig-nosed turtle, it lives in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Extremely aggressive, little studied and difficult to keep in captivity, it is rarely seen in aquariums.
MeEmm TIL Mel Boozer, the African American human rights activist, became the first openly gay person ever nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States in 1980.